Athletics
Unmeasured, Therefore Unsold: The Unwritten Times of Bangladesh's Women's Sprinting2026, National Athletics Championships, Dhaka. The women's 100m final. Twelve...
Two Seconds of Course Record, Forty-One Years of Body: How Kipchoge's Melbourne Win Covered the Marathon's Real CrisisAt the mouth of the Melbourne Cricket Ground tunnel, the scoreboard read...
A Two-Second Record at Forty-One: The Real Story of Kipchoge's Melbourne Win Isn't the Course RecordThe clock at the MCG tunnel mouth read 2:09:10. Second place: 2:10:35. An...
The Fourteen Names That Taught Bangladeshi Athletics to Recognise ItselfThe borrowed microphone at Khulna District Stadium could hold a charge for on...
The Bangladeshi Athletics Story Nobody Is Writing Behind the Timing PaddleIn 2026, in a small room beside Chattogram's MA Aziz Stadium, I watched Shah...
The Arithmetic Beyond the Race: The Silent Forces That Decide Results in Modern AthleticsThe stadium fills up and the language becomes seconds. A sprint ends in nine...
Nairobi 2029: The Promise and Peril of Africa's First World ChampionshipsThe news that Nairobi, Kenya's capital, has been awarded the 2029 World...
From Hand-Timed to Electronic: How to Measure the Decline of Bangladeshi SprintingFrom 2026 to 2026, Bangladeshi male sprinters won four SAF Games 100m gold...
Behind Nguyen Mai Trung's Marathon Battle, Vietnam's Running Boom Faces a Bigger QuestionBefore sunrise, runners are expected to move along the coastal road linking...
The Autopsy of Empty Data: the Biomechanical Cost of Bangladesh Athletics' Missing Injury RecordAugust 2026, London Stadium. Sixty metres into the anchor leg of the 4x100m...
Two Stories on Chicago's Flat Course: Kipruto's Solo Run, Feysa's Final-Mile VerdictWhen the timing sheet was finalized after the men's elite race at the 2026...
Where Did the Year Go in the New York Marathon Report? A Paper Audit of a Results WireThe wire copy landed on the desk around three in the morning, a Swedish name ...
New York City Marathon: Behind 2:06:01, the Ledger Still Has No YearAt 3 a.m. on the results feed, the first number was 2:06:01. The next line sa...
The Empty Return: Why Bangladesh's Sprint Records Keep Coming Back BlankOn a February morning, sorting through old files, I pulled out a results shee...
The Empty-File Audit: How Athletics Covers Missing Data With StoryI opened a file at my Manchester desk. No reaction time inside it, no cue tim...
The Gap Inside 11.43: Shanti Pereira's Nagoya Heat and the Silence of the Wind GaugeThe afternoon of September 24 was tilting across the track at Nagoya's Mizuho...
History in Nagoya: Thai Teen Puripol Boonson Clocks 9.91s to Break Asian Games 100m RecordAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Thailand's Puripol Boonson crossed the lin...
Olympic silver medalist Cyrena Samba-Mayela given temporary suspension over whereabouts breachThe Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has handed French hurdler Cyrena...
Two Teenagers in Nagoya and One Empty Column: Is the 70.46m Record Awaiting Ratification?The scoreboard at the Nagoya throws field flashed 70.46 on the first attempt....
